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Trim seconds off your time, train more efficiently, or simply maximize your fitness workouts with Mastering Swimming. Renowned coaches Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers have teamed up to create the ultimate swimming guide for masters athletes. Swimmers aged 18 to 120 will benefit from a targeted approach that covers these essentials: Stroke instruction and refinement for freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly Workout plans for fitness and competition Training for open-water swimming and triathlon Second-saving starts and turns In addition, Mastering Swimming covers equipment, dryland training, motivational strategies, and guidance for selecting a masters coach or program. With such complete coverage, it's the one resource you'll turn to time and again for a lifetime of serious swimming.

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• ISBN13: 9780736074537
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Swimming Past 50 offers age-appropriate fitness and competition training programs and insights for swimmers who have lapped the 50-year mark. Written by Masters swimming coaches, this book will help you reach your target fitness level, improve performance, and increase your enjoyment of swimming. Both in-pool and dryland training programs and sample workouts are presented in a clear and ready-to-use format, and they can be easily tailored to meet your specific needs. The authors also include technique instruction to help sharpen your strokes and injury prevention guidelines to keep you healthy and injury-free. In addition, real-life stories of Masters swimmers over age 50 and samples of their workouts will give insight into developing your own program. Whether you swim to stay in shape, compete as a Masters swimmer, or are looking to start swimming regularly at this point in your life, Swimming Past 50 is your guide to success.

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This guide for coaches acknowledges and plans for the development as a whole person - physically, emotionally, mentally and socially.

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An essay about a twentieth century Central European Jewish athlete who challenged prevailing anti-Semitic stereotypes and, in the years just after the First World War, became a competitive rower and swimmer in what was then Czechoslovakia. In addition to profiling water polo player Kurt Epstein from his childhood to his decision to participate in the 1936 Berlin "Nazi" Olympics, the author addresses the problematic subject of Jews in sports.

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That all persons ought to know how to safeguard themselves when in deep water is becoming more and more recognized as time passes. While swimming is probably the oldest pastime known to man, and has had, and still has, its votaries in every country, civilized or uncivilized, it is curious that this most useful science should have been so much neglected.

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That all persons ought to know how to safeguard themselves when in deep water is becoming more and more recognized as time passes. While swimming is probably the oldest pastime known to man, and has had, and still has, its votaries in every country, civilized or uncivilized, it is curious that this most useful science should have been so much neglected.